PHP - file_get_contents系统错误？

Question

I'm trying to parse the html from a url. I do this:

$html = file_get_contents($someURL);
echo $html;

But when I run that script, the page shows this:

UISCGI (software8a-web; software8a-link):
This site is best viewed with Netscape 4.6 or 4.7 or Internet Explorer 5 and greater.
At this time Netscape 6 is not supported for Link usage.

I also tried CURLing the url, while faking IE7 as the User Agent.

What's going wrong here? I couldn't find this error anywhere with Google. How do I get past this system error?

Answer 1

I found such an adress, faking of the user-agent works fine. Maybe the setting of the header is wrong in your case.

simple example:

<?php
   //fake IE6
  ini_set('user_agent', "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0)
");
   //request
  echo file_get_contents('http://www.bu.edu/link/');
?>

(without the ini_set() I get the same output like you)

Note: From PHP5 on file_get_contents() also allows setting of headers via the optional context-parameter-